Issues of different effects of carbonated soft drinks to human health have been circulated and analyzed in both scientific and non-scientific approaches. However, there is few publications discussing the specific effect of carbonation on human health and, more often than not, studies have largely concentrated on the effect of sugar or calorie content in carbonated beverages in affecting our hea…
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is an important cause of blindness and premature death. Vitamin A also plays an important role on growth and immune function. Red palm oil is the richest naturally occurring source of 13- carotene, a carotenoid that the human body can convert into usable vitamin A (retinol). This research was to evaluate the effect of feeding red palm oil enriched brown sugar on impro…
Degenerative diseases prevalence had been arining over years. One of thecauses is the life style changes including eating pattern. Tempeh, anIndonesian soybean traditionally fermented food, was known and consumedby almost all Indonesian people. However, only a few know thehealth benefit of tempeh. Tempeh was also welknown and cheap proteinsource food affordable for the poor. Hence, there is a n…
Lysine is an essential amino acid and is often found as the first limiting amino acid in many food plants, especially in cereal grains. The determination of commercial baby foods were analyzed for the available lysine. Analyses were conducted by FDNB method. In general the lysine available of these products were about 0.65 percent-1.03 percent for the per-coked conditions/treatment and about 0.…